This is really just my take on a beautiful existing post (I love “re-un-gave up”, which is a verb I never knew existed even though I experience doing it about 6x a week).
Tell Filezilla about your AWS key pair
- In Filezilla, go to Preferences/SFTP
- Click Add key… button
- Navigate to your AWS .pem key pair file (if you don’t have one, look for tutorials on how to create them and save them to your local computer)
- Tell Filezilla to open it.
- Filezilla will probably want to convert the file into its favourite format – which it does automatically.
- You’ll probably need to save the resulting .ppk file.
Use SiteManager to create a new SFTP connection
- In Site Manager:
- Create a new site.
- Your AWS public DNS host address goes in the Host field
- Port 22; Secure FTP/SSH is the connection type
- “Normal” connection
- Enter your SSH username in the “User” field; leave the password blank
- Connect
If you’re lucky + if I’m not shit, Filezilla will connect and you can now fling files up to your server.
DANGER: lock SSH down by IP address if you at all can.
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